Routine for prefixing '>' before every line of a string
Boris Borcic
bborcic at gmail.com
Thu Dec 14 08:03:09 EST 2006
Sanjay wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is somewhere a routine useful to convert a string to lines of maxsize,
> each prefixed with a '>'. This is a typical requirement for 'keeping
> existing text while replying to a post in a forum'.
>
> It can be developed, but if something obvious is already there(I being
> new to python might not be aware), than it would be great just to reuse
> it!
>
> thanks
> sanjay
>
def fixlines(stuff) :
for line in stuff.split(line_separator) :
for chunkstart in range(0,len(line),maxsize) :
yield prefix + line[chunkstart:chunkstart+maxsize]
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